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Friday, 1 August 2014

Ostensible Reason Of Hypocrites

LESSON
# 451 FROM HOLY QUR’AN

Ostensible
Reason Of Hypocrites

Surah ‘Aali ‘Imran
(The Family Of ‘Imran, Chapter - 3)

Verses
– 167b & 168 of 200, Section –17 (Part – 4)

167b. They
answered: If we knew aught of fighting we would follow you. On that day they
were nearer disbelief than faith. They utter with their mouths a thing, which
is not in their hearts. And Allah is Best Aware of what they hide.

168. Those
who, while they sat at home, said of their brethren (who were fighting for
the Cause of Allah): If they had obeyed us they would not have been slain.
Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Then avert death from yourselves if ye are
truthful.

Greatest help and power, which is considered most
useful in the battlefield, is that either the fighters would have complete
support from their rear or they have expectation that their companions and
protectors exist on their back, and they will be reaching very soon. Contrary
to it, those soldiers remain in an excessive distressed condition and withered
whose own companions leave them helpless and they have no hope regarding any
help.

Abdullah bin ‘Ubayy adopted this behavior with the Muslim Crusaders. That is to
say; at that time when the enemy was in front of them and the Infidelity and
Islam were near to knocking against each other, he brought back his companions.
When he was advised in this connection, he replied that there is no chance of
fight. If we would have known that really the both armies are going to fight,
then we would have gone with you. Even now, if we felt that the war has begun,
we would come with you. He aimed also from this conversation that if really there
were any encounter, we certainly would have remained with you. There is no
contest between your army and the army of Infidels and Idolaters. You have only
one thousand personnel and they have three thousand braves. In addition, you
have no war equipment too. It is not a battle, but to put oneself into
destruction willing or not willing. In other words, it means from his
description, “If we would know how to fight or aware of the art of war, then we
would have remained with you”. As though, they taunted the Muslims in their
hearts, “You did not act upon our advice, accepted opinion of others, as if we
are comprehended as ignorant from the established orders of war”. They tried to
harm the Muslims from this act and strengthened the Infidels. They said to the ‘Ansaar (a tribe of sheikhs supposed to
have belonged originally to Medina and embraced Islam), “If they had obeyed us
and remained at their homes they would not have been slain”. Allah Almighty
commanded them that if it is not possible to escape from the death, then why not
it should be accepted, coming out in the battlefield like the brave people.

Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore and translated
Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif.